Category Archive: ‘ ask Dr. Leigh’

Help! My Child’s Homework is Destroying our Family

HELP! MY CHILD’S HOMEWORK IS DESTROYING OUR FAMILY! Throughout years of working with children and their families, I have heard well-meaning parents make countless complaints about their children’s homework. Grievances such as: “I don’t understand how to do so much of this, I can’t help my child.” ” I […]

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Finding the Right Words: Talking to Your Children in a Conflict-Free Manner

FINDING THE RIGHT WORDS: TALKING TO YOUR CHILD IN A CONFLICT-FREE MANNER Childhood is not an easy time of life. Most of us forget this, although if you stop for a few moments and reflect on your childhood, you are sure to remember the occasional sense of helplessness, loss of control, anger, and disappointments that […]

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Ask Dr. Leigh: Survivor’s Guilt

A victim of one of the recent disasters that has struck our country wrote to ask me why she is feeling so much guilt over surviving when others were wounded or had family members killed. Survivor’s guilt is common. So common in fact that it was labeled a symptom in an older version of the Diagnostic […]

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Ask Dr. Leigh: Can survivors of childhood sexual abuse heal?

Ask Dr. Leigh: Healing the Wounds of Sexual Abuse “I am an adult survivor of long term sexual abuse and trauma. Is there hope for me that I can ever heal from so much pain?” Over the past twenty-seven years, countless survivors of childhood trauma and sexual abuse have asked me this question. They wonder, […]

Ask Dr. Leigh: What can I do if I suspect my child is victim of Parental Alienation?

Ask Dr. Leigh: What can I do if I suspect my child is a Victim of Parental Alienation? This question has come to my attention countless times throughout the years. The majority of them have come from fathers, divorced and desperately trying to maintain some type of connection with their children. Others are […]

COURT ORDERED EVALUATIONS FOR FALSE ALLEGATIONS OF CHILD ABUSE

SPECIAL ISSUE EVALUATIONS CONDUCTING COURT ORDERED ASSESSMENTS FOR ALLEGATIONS OF CHILD ABUSE IN THE CONTEXT OF HIGH CONFLICT DIVORCE A majority of child sexual assaults are never reported to the police. From those children who do report abuse, a small percentage of those children make false allegations. The statistics vary from state to state, […]